Hi, Nguyễn Gia Phong via "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." <[email protected]> writes:
> Hello Guix, > > I am thinking of expanding the Guix package specification DSL > to support arbitrary property queries to specify package variants, > e.g. hello@2:out?foo&bar=baz. > > The most prominent use case for this is probably language implementation > or framework version like lua=5.4 or qt=5. Not only this encourages > such metadata to be present as package-properties, it's also convenient > for guix shell invocations, since there's no longer the need to guess > where the namespace's version number goes in the name: > > guix shell [email protected] lua-{lgi,penlight}?lua=5.4 > guix shell qt{base,svg}?qt=5 > > These specific problems has been recently separately raised > on Codeberg (and I thought email is a bit more suitable > for this kind of open-ended discussion, hence this thread): > > - Lua: https://codeberg.org/guix/guix/pulls/6977 > - Qt: https://codeberg.org/guix/guix/issues/7489 > > Full disclosure, I'm maintaining a collection of bugs, which often > reveiled by sanitizers. It'd be lovely too if the buggy packages > could be referred to as something like [email protected]?asan. > > This is usually not an issue on the base Guix channel > because build variants like bootstrap and for-tests are hidden though. > > What do y'all think? As others pointed out, the parameterized packages effort has some complexities, just for reference. We also have this Zulip conversation where some of the previous discussions were listed[1]. [1] https://guix.zulipchat.com/#narrow/channel/564622-general/topic/parameterized.20packages.3F/near/580673641 Best regards, Sergio
